[ale] Slackware 11.0 RC1 is Out

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 17:06 -0400, fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man wrote:
> 
> Yeah.  I understand stability, however, I think that the line between
> stability and new software is being a bit crossed on this one.  It is
> kind of interesting, because I was wondering whether or not he would
> move to 2.6, and I wonder if the lack of UMSDOS has anything to do
> with it.  I am sure that someone out there still finds ZipSlack
> useful? but then again, I think that it would have been just fine if
> Slack used 2.6 by default and 2.4 as a fall back option.  Lack of 2.6
> by default was one of the reasons I stopped using Slackware, because
> 2.6 just has a lot of damn cool features that make things in the
> userland happier, and (at least on the machines I run on) have never
> encountered stability issues that were attributable to the kernel;
> just hardware bugs/instabilities.
> 

I think USB and Firewire is better in 2.6.